Arnold Schwarzenegger fought with James Cameron over one deleted scene in 'Terminator 2'

"Terminator 2: Judgment Day" is arguably one of the greatest
sequels of all time.

Rather than imitating the original, it pushed this world
forward and turned Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger) from
terrifying villain to heroic savior.

But making something this good isn't always a smooth ride.
"Terminator 2" had to go through multiple changes before
ruling the box office in 1991. The
ending was originally much happier. And then, they
needed to cut the film's running time down even more.

While Schwarzenegger couldn't recall anything from "Genisys," he
remembered an argument he and director James Cameron had over
which scene should be cut in order to shorten the film's running
time.

"There was a disagreement I remember on the second 'Terminator'
because we screened the movie and it was two hours and twenty
minutes," said Schwarzenegger. "And so I said to James Cameron,
'The movie's too long.' And he says to me, 'Why do you say that?'
It just felt like to me at a certain point, okay, let's get it
done."

After some struggle, Cameron
decided to cut a scene in
which Sarah (Linda Hamilton) and John Connor (Edward Furlong)
have to remove Terminator's brain.

"It was shot in a very
remarkable way with the mirror effect and all this stuff.
And it was a three minute and thirty second scene."
Schwarzenegger remembered.

There was just one problem.

Schwarzenegger loved that scene.

"He says I'm gonna take that scene out to shorten the movie ...
just to pay me back," said Arnold. "And, I said to him, 'No,
no! That's one of my favorite scenes! You can't take that
out!'"

'He says 'No, I have to, because that's the way we shorten the
movie. Then I have to work on some other scenes,'" recalled
Schwarzenegger.

A scene in which Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) performs
emergency surgery on T-800 was cut from the
film.TriStar via
YouTube

A look inside T-800's brainTriStar via YouTube

"And so he took that scene out and we had a little fight
about that." Schwarzenegger said.

Though he was upset to let the scene go, he understands
that this is what had to be done. After all, cutting the movie
down was his idea in the first place.

"But then I had to let it go because we wanted to cut down
the length of the movie." Schwarzenegger said.

Schwarzenegger will be back as T-800 in "Terminator Genisys,"
which will be out in theaters on July 1.